Posts with keyword: trends

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Has Social Networking Reached the End of its Cycle?

Sat Apr 21 11:09:00 2012

Most of the hot trends on computing seem like more of the same and people start to wonder how all this personal data they're sharing can help improve their lives. Personal clouds and life management platforms offer a revolutionary answer to what's next.
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The Trends Driving KRL and Kynetx

Mon Apr 25 17:57:00 2011

In my last post, I outlined a few benefits that developers could gain from using KRL. Well and good, but so what? Are those benefits that matter? How do they relate to the other reasons programmers learn new languages like money and opportunity? In this post, I will talk about some of the big trends driving my thinking and informing the decisions around what KRL is and why it enables the abstractions that it does. There are three trends I'd like to examine: The rise of real-time data and the evented Web The rise of personal data and user-centricity
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Personal Businesses On the Rise

Thu Feb 1 10:46:00 2007

Number of US businesses with no employees (Intuit/IFTF study)(click to enlarge) Paul Kedrosky pointed out an Intuit/IFTF study on small business (PDF) that talks about the rise of the personal business. Tim O'Reilly has a nice riff on this as well. As I talk to people, I find more and more who consider themselves free agents and, even though they have an employer, take pains to keep themselves free of organizational entanglements. They use their own email address for most correspondence, buy their own tools, and see their employment more like a business to business relationship than a traditional
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